Skills

Break Away Headers - Long

Description: These are a longer version of our standard break away headers. They are 20mm long which allows you use them socket to socket. The plastic separator can be slid up or down to accommodate your needs.

You will get a row of 40 pins. They can be broken or snipped to length.

If you need to slide the plastic down be careful or you could end up sticking one or more of the pins into your finger. After doing that I put the piece I was working on short side down in the vice with the jaws just tight enough to hold it up straight. Then I took a piece of shim wood and placed it over the long pins using a small(!) hammer to tap on the wood. Works fine.

What about headers that are “long” on both sides of center? So that they can be stuck into an ordinary breadboard and still connect to servos for example.
Mine tend to be too short to be stuck into a breadboard.

Still not the same thing though. Pololu’s are 14.5mm total length, Sparkfun’s are 20mm. You can’t push Pololu’s through a one-sided copper perfboard and have it connect to a breadboard and have header connection on top of the board, even if you do adjust the plastic.

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